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Pep Guardiola asked to ‘focus on football’ after mixed comments

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “We have repeatedly asked prominent individuals to be mindful of the words they use given how the Jewish people have endured attacks around the world,” a statement posted on X said.“Pep Guardiola is a football manager. While his humanitarian ideas may be well-intentioned, he must focus on football.“Manchester City have been let down by repeatedly deviating from commentary on international affairs.”The statement also referred to the attack last October on the Heaton Park synagogue, in which two people were killed.“It is particularly disturbing given his…

Luke Littler: Littler rejects Luke Humphries’ ‘greatest of all time’ claim.

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✨ Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Littler's win at the Masters in Milton Keynes moves him level with James Wade on 11 PDC major titles, behind Michael van Gerwen who has 48 and 16-time world champion Taylor who has 79.Speaking about his post-Masters comments at the launch of the 2026 Premier League, Humphreys admitted he could have phrased his praise of Littler differently.“I've said that right now, but I'm still standing by it, and I'm not going to back down from it,” Humphries said.“By using the word ‘greatest’, perhaps what I…

Ospreys: “We were told they wouldn’t be there” – Swansea Board

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💥 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Swansea Council said it would publish minutes of the meeting on 22 January, but claimed in its statement that they had not done so because the WRU, Y11 and Ospreys objected to it.The meeting included officials from Swansea Council, WRU chief executive Abi Tierney and Ospreys chief executive Lance Bradley.In a statement, the Council listed a number of what it called “basic facts” that it claimed were said during the meeting.The statement includes Ospreys CEO Lance Bradley confirming there will be no professional Ospreys team…

Aberdeen vs. Celtic and Dundee vs. Motherwell matches postponed

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Celtic's visit to Aberdeen in the Scottish Premiership, along with Dundee's clash with Motherwell, has been postponed after heavy rain in the north-east.Aberdeen announced that Pittodrie Stadium had been deemed unfit for play at 16:23 GMT.Fourth referee Gregg Soutar conducted an inspection, and the club said it canceled the match “out of concern for the player’s safety.”Celtic was seeking to reduce the gap with leaders Heart of Midlothian to three points.Dundee arranged a precautionary inspection with the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) and the…

Scotland players say World Cup signing decision was ‘inhumane’

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The players told BBC Sport that the team had discussed boycotting one match during the 2025 Women's Six Nations Championship - five months before the start of the World Cup - to try to reach a solution with Scottish Rugby over its request for 12-month contracts.All players contacted say they were told that contract decisions were performance-based and that they might get a new contract if they performed well in the tournament, adding to the pressure.“It was literally a lifeline or deathline,” one player…

Winter Olympics 2026: Skeleton team GB appeals after helmets ruled unsafe

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🔥 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The British skeleton team enjoyed a successful 2024-25 season, with Matt Weston winning overall World Cup gold and Marcus White taking silver winning all seven races between them.That success came with a different helmet, and BBSA told BBC Sport that the helmet it was hoping to use for the Games in Italy was a new design for the 2026-27 season, which starts at the end of the year.She said she tried to be "innovative" with the new design, which she believes is "in line with…

India beat Afghanistan to reach the final of the U-19 Cricket World Cup

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: India will play England in the U-19 World Cup final after a record chase against Afghanistan in Harare.The five-time winners chased down the Under-19 World Cup record of 311 for the loss of just three wickets and with over eight overs to spare in a strong display.Aaron George made 115 after 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who already has a 35-ball IPL century to his name, smoked a scintillating 68 off just 33 balls after falling twice.Captain Aayush Mhatre added a half-century of his own as India…

Epstein files: Football, Formula 1 and NFL bosses maintain links after sex conviction

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✨ Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The files show that Crystal Palace investor Josh Harris remained in contact with Epstein via email and phone calls for many years after his conviction, including joining him at a breakfast meeting in 2013, after which he sent an email saying “thank you for inviting me”.Harris — whose private equity firm Apollo Global Management also owns the Philadelphia 76ers, the NHL team New Jersey Devils, and the NFL team Washington Commanders — also contacted Epstein in 2016, saying he was “happy to catch up” at…

2026 Winter Olympics: Russian athletes linked to pro-war activism

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💥 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The final decision on whether the four athletes could compete in Milano-Cortina was made by the International Olympic Committee's Individual Neutral Athlete Eligibility Review Committee.Watanabe participates in the committee in his capacity as a representative of international sports federations, by virtue of his role as President of the World Gymnastics Federation. He was also a candidate in the International Olympic Committee's presidential elections last year.In March 2025, Watanabe was photographed hugging Nagorny during a visit to Moscow.Nagorny, an Olympic gold medalist at the Tokyo…

Tottenham transfer: James Wilson made a bad decision – McInnes

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💥 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Heart of Midlothian manager Derek McInnes believes James Wilson made a mistake by joining Tottenham Hotspur on loan in a deal that could become permanent at the end of the season.Arsenal were in talks with the Scottish Premiership leaders over a transfer for the 18-year-old but the Scottish striker joined Tottenham instead.Wilson, who became the youngest player to represent Scotland when he featured in the UEFA Nations League play-off against Greece last March, will play for Tottenham's Under-21s.He has scored eight goals in 45 appearances…